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11/11/2007

Re:Place

Bastart, Bratislava

Andreas Leikauf, Silvia Ederer und Oliver Dorfer

Bast’art Gallery Bratislava is going to show the exhibition with the ambigious title „Re:Place“ from November 13th until December 16th. It is the counterpart of the “Re:Place” Vienna, which is being shown in the Siemens_artLab until November 10th. A Vision of a perfect ideal(ized) place is the underlying idea of “Re:Place”. Bratislava and Vienna, the twin cities, which are steadily growing and cooperating together, stand for such ideal cities.

Three Austrian artists - Andreas Leikauf, Silvia Ederer und Oliver Dorfer, will be shown in „Re:Place“ Bratislava. The recurring topics of their artworks are elements of comics, proverbs and movies. Although their works are not to be lumped together, there is a certain similarity is not to be dismissed.
Pop culture and new media influence their producing in many ways. The ambiguous title of the exhibition ''Re:Place'' on the one hand means ''replacing'' and, on the other hand, a reference to something, just like the reference line in a written communication.

Oliver Dorfer (*1963) doesn’t perceive himself as painter. Surprisingly he considers his work to be generated by pics and visuals. He designs his ideas and concepts with the help of computer programs and subsequently paints them, using his draft designed on the computer as frame of reference. Oliver Dorfer presents a position within the Austrian contemporary art, which connects the motif-orientated language of pictures of the 1980th with a high sensibility for optical systems of current artistic forms of appearances. He works on the tension between universal validity of the simplest story and the complex interleave of signs of our ''pic-media-society''. His new works show few recurring motives, which form logos, icons and pictograms, and create his distinctive visual language. He works traditionally with brush and acryl on plastic and refers with his picture series in comic style on narrations of comics, pop und trash.

The young artist Silvia Ederer (*1972) mainly focuses on painting and photography – and is combing those two media in “Re:Place”. Ederer uses a puzzle of recurring guiding principles which are obeying a certain independent illogicality like a subtle patchwork. The content-coherence and narrative sequence of the series, follow an inconsistent, non-linear, contradictory pattern. The redraft of visual realities is like a dialogue between the painting per se and the original material.

Like an author of comics, Andreas Leikauf (b. 1966 in Eastern Styria, Austria) seems to have access to and use of an inventory of images, which is surely traced back to the anonymous pictorial style. The idea of trash is certainly no problem for the artist. Trash replicates all major genres of advanced civilization and parodies it, too. The potency of popular culture – which of course also existed before pop art – lies in its directness and supposed inarticulacy. His image-word combinations seem to be part of a collective subconscious. Naturally, it has to do with the stereotypes of media visual perception. Trash does not claim to fathom the great questions of existence with a view to eternity, but exists for the present and the everyday. As a painter, Leikauf does what a photo-reporter does in the classic sense: he photographs into every shadow of society. The abundance of his results is as astounding as the ingenious mise-en-scène of his pictures.

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Stetinova 1 - Bratislava

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